Who knew the game was yanked from shelves, hence making it a collectors item?
By Patrick SauerSpecial to ESPN.com
I still remember where I was the first time I saw Mike Tyson hit the canvas. No, not at the hands of Buster Douglas. I'm referring to when my friend Mike "Buzz" Bartholomew laid out the seemingly unbeatable animated Mike Tyson of "Punch-Out!!" fame. It was the summer of 1987, in the basement of my Billings, Mont., boyhood home. It felt as though we were witnessing history. It was a scene played out on Nintendo NES consoles everywhere. Beating Tyson was a victory so satisfying that two decades later, gamers of the time still talk about taking down the champ. "It took me two months to figure out Tyson's knockout punch, but when I did, it was all over," says Bartholomew, now an IT specialist. Sure, boxing was a much more mainstream sport 20 years ago, but lots of video games came and went ("Ring King," anyone?), so why does Punch-Out!! live on in our collective pop culture memory? It starts with Kid Dynamite himself.
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1 comment:
Liked the song all the way around (beat, lyrics, hook), despite that annoying D.J. shooting off at the mouth at random, annoying the crap out of me. I mean, who does he think he is, DJ Clue? Fool, you ain't "Da Professional!" Shut it!
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